User:PatrickBxl

Patrick, a middle-aged Brit living in Brussels, writes and edits on Wikipedia mostly (though not exclusively) about that city.

Most of this page is personal notes --- while of course you can edit them, in general I'd rather you left me a message instead!

Articles to write
Brussels tram route 8 : There are articles about maybe half the tram lines, filling in the rest is an obvious thing to do. Couple of references about the start of the 8: https://www.stib-mivb.be/article.html?_guid=307ec858-fd97-3610-2596-faf3f6704ee3&l=en and https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2018/09/29/all-change-tram-8-is-here/. There are good articles on most of the Brussels tram lines in the Dutch Wikipedia, eg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlijn_8_(Brussel) (including maps, though mostly old photos). There are also some pages about former tram lines – tram 23 and tram 24 – but they're pretty much orphans, we could add a section to the List of Brussels tram routes page (and the equivalent list in the Trams in Brussels page) for former lines, and maybe even add a section to the template (the Dutch Wikipedia has one, Oude tramlijnen).

Boulevard Général Jacques : Général Jacques (the guy) has an article: Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude, but the street doesn't. Not many streets have their own article, though some do (Rue de la Loi, Rue Belliard). But there's an article on the French Wikipedia about the road (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_Jacques) - in general French Wikipedia has lots of articles on Brussels streets, many with a decent amount of detail and references, and a nice "street" template. So probably a translation job, then go and find articles that should link! In particular, the article about the middle ring has lots of what look like links to roads, but are actually links to the people the roads are named after. Which I think isn't useful, but probably worth mentioning in talk.

Maybe add some more personal stuff on here - see eg Userboxes, maybe

Internal links and useful references
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WikiText reference and Cheatsheet give most of WikiText. The Wikipedia style manual is at Manual of Style.

Translation basics are at Translation, there's a bit of detail about citations at Copying_within_Wikipedia

The tram 3 page includes (under "External links" at the bottom). But we should probably be playing with WikiData instead - see Wikidata.

Possibly-useful material
Looking into Auderghem streets, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%A9e_des_Colzas is mostly a copy of http://www.urba.be/Rues/rues_c.htm, but that's no longer live. Fortunately there's a cached version of that page (http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urba.be%2FRues%2Frues_c.htm), but the complete set isn't there. The whole site appears to be at https://web.archive.org/web/20120604043255/http://www.urba.be/ (archived at 04:32 on 4-Jun-2012), or without the headers at https://web.archive.org/web/20120604043255if_/http://www.urba.be:80/. Also includes notes on, eg, the construction of the E411. Source is mostly "Histoire des environs de Bruxelles ou description historique des localités qui formaient autrefois l'ammannie de cette ville" par Alphonse Wauters (1855), in at least three volumes!